Hey,
Today at school a group of us were caught using UHF radios and logging on the schools UHF radios they use to monitor the school. We ordered them around, confused them etc... and we were eventually caught.
Yet apparently we endangered lives [:o)]. Apparently if there was a terrorist or gangwar going on we would get the blame for the lives lost, because we kill their communications. Yet you all know we would just stand there and watch the killings and make pranks on a UHF radio instead of running for our lives.
I think its bullcrap though, they say its a criminal offence yet its a free public domain channel, and whats stopping them from changing to a different channel?
Anyway, this is for General Chat, so yeah i used it for general chat [:)].
It sounds like the point they were trying to make is that you hampered there communications for what is no more than a prank, they obviously use these systems to help manage the safe running of the school and of its student body.
Maybe they overeacted with the whole gangwar/tesrrorism stance but you should be mature enough to realise there point is more than valid and your actions while meant in jest could have caused problems if someone was in need of those systems.
Maybe they just wanted to reinforce that your actions while benign and humourous could have affected others in a negative way?
Without getting all serious here - they're right.
It is a breach of the license under which you are allowed to operate public band "CB" radios (including the UHF band you refer to) to:
http://www.aca.gov.au/consumer_info/fact_sheets/consumer_fact_sheets/fs…
http://www.aca.gov.au/aca_home/legislation/radcomm/class_licences/cbrs…
quote:
There are specific conditions regarding personal conduct during operation of a CB radio station, and penalties apply for improper conduct. In particular, the CBRS class licence states that:
A person must not operate a CB station:
* in a way that would be likely to cause a reasonable person, justifiably in all the circumstances, to be seriously alarmed or seriously affronted; or
* for the purpose of harassing a person.
and, unfortunately, if you are found to have breached the license, issued under the radiocommunications act then:
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/300/0/PA000210.htm
quote:
A reference in this Act to an offence against this Act or to an offence against a provision of this Act includes a reference to an offence against section 6 of the Crimes Act 1914, or an ancillary offence (within the meaning of the Criminal Code), that relates to this Act or that provision, as the case requires.
ie: a criminal offense, if they make the complaint etc.
Count yourself lucky, and treat it as a learning experience. We've all had those horrible "oh-sh*t" moments, and it's what we take away from them that matters more than what goes into them.
as long as you had fun playin with the radio its all good, and if the school did get attacked be terrorists its thier own fault for thinking *hey somone might sneak in here... NAH!!!* that and the fact that when the terrorists attack there only gonna use the radio to get money or somthing (or they could be there to play pranks too)[:)]
your school uses uhf radios to monitor the schools? what do you mean by monitor and what happened to yard duty teachers and the mobile phones.